Arts and culture

Cahit Sıtkı Tarancı

Cahit Sıtkı Tarancı, born Hüseyin Cahit, was a Turkish poet born in Diyarbakır in 1910, best known for "Otuz Beş Yaş," which won the 1946 CHP poetry competition.

Cahit Zarifoğlu

Cahit Zarifoğlu, full name Abdurrahman Cahit Zarifoğlu, was a Turkish poet and writer who co-founded the magazine Mavera in 1976 and wrote in many genres.

Cahokia Jazz, Francis Spufford's alternate-history detective novel (Faber UK 2023, Scribner US), set in 1922 where indigenous Cahokia survived as an industrial metropolis; Sidewise Award winner featuring detective Joe Barrow and the invented language Anopa.

Cahuilla oral literature

Cahuilla oral literature is the songs, myths, and narratives of the Cahuilla people of southern California, centered on the creation myth of Mukat and Temayawet.

Cai Guo-Qiang

Cai Guo-Qiang (蔡国强), born 1957 in Quanzhou, China, and based in New York since 1995, is a contemporary artist known for gunpowder drawings and explosion events, including the 2008 Beijing Olympics fireworks.

Cai Wenji Returns to Han

Cai Wenji Returns to Han (文姬归汉, Wenji gui Han) is a recurring subject of Chinese narrative painting, depicting the poet Cai Yan's return from twelve years of Xiongnu captivity.

Cai Xukun (蔡徐坤)

Cai Xukun (蔡徐坤), born 1998, is a Chinese singer, songwriter, and producer who finished first on Idol Producer in 2018 before building a self-produced solo career.

Cai Yan (蔡琰)

Cai Yan (蔡琰), also Cai Wenji (蔡文姬) or Zhaoji, late Han poet, daughter of Cai Yong; captured by Southern Xiongnu for twelve years, ransomed by Cao Cao, credited with the Beifen shi poems and Hujia shiba pai.

Caifanes (album)

Caifanes, also known as Volumen I or Mátenme Porque Me Muero, is the 1988 debut album of the Mexican rock band Caifanes, a landmark of rock en español that fused new wave with cumbia.

Caigentan

Caigentan (菜根譚, "Vegetable Root Discourse") is a late Ming collection of aphorisms on self-cultivation, compiled around 1591 by Hong Yingming, blending Confucian, Daoist, and Buddhist teaching.

Cailee Spaeny

Cailee Spaeny (born 1998) is an American actress from Springfield, Missouri, known for Priscilla (Venice Best Actress, Golden Globe nomination), Civil War, and Alien: Romulus.

Caillou

Caillou: Canadian animated preschool series (Teletoon, 1997; PBS Kids, 2000) based on Chouette books by L'Heureux and Desputeaux, about a bald four-year-old; retired by PBS in 2021, rebooted on Peacock in 2024.

Cain Culto

Cain Culto (Andrew Estevan Padilla, born 1997) is an American queer singer, rapper, and fiddler blending Appalachian bluegrass with Colombian rhythms as "Kentucky Latin Art-Pop," known for "KFC Santería" and the debut album CULTO.

Cain Dingle

Cain Dingle is a fictional hardman in the ITV soap Emmerdale, played by Jeff Hordley since 2000. Illegitimate son of Zak and Faith Dingle, husband of Moira, head of the Dingle family since 2015.

Caine (film)

Caine (From the World of John Wick: Caine) is an upcoming Lionsgate action thriller directed by and starring Donnie Yen as the blind assassin from John Wick: Chapter 4; filmed in Budapest and Hong Kong from April to July 2026, release expected 2027.

Caine Prize for African Writing

The Caine Prize for African Writing is an annual £10,000 award for a short story by an African writer published in English, first awarded in 2000.

Caio Fernando Abreu

Caio Fernando Abreu, full name Caio Fernando Loureiro de Abreu, was a Brazilian writer and journalist, born in 1948 and best known for the landmark story collection Morangos mofados (1982).

Caipirinha

Caipirinha: Brazil's national cocktail of cachaça, lime, and sugar, built in the glass over cracked ice. IBA Contemporary Classic with Caipiroska, Caipirissima, and Caipirão variants; legally defined at 15–36% ABV.

Cairo International Film Festival

The Cairo International Film Festival (CIFF; مهرجان القاهرة السينمائي الدولي) is an annual film festival in Cairo, Egypt, founded in 1976 and one of the oldest in Africa and the Arab world.

Cairo Jazz Club

Cairo Jazz Club (CJC) is a live-music venue and nightclub in Agouza, Cairo, Egypt, open since 2001 and known for jazz, rock, indie, and electronic music.

Cairo Opera House (دار الأوبرا المصرية)

Cairo Opera House (دار الأوبرا المصرية), Egypt's National Cultural Centre on Gezira Island, Zamalek; opened 10 October 1988 with a ~$33 million Japanese grant, replacing the 1869 Khedivial Opera House that burned in 1971; Main Hall seats 1,200.

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Cairo Station

Cairo Station (Bab el-Hadid, باب الحديد) is Youssef Chahine's 1958 Egyptian black-and-white crime drama, set in Cairo's central railway station, starring Chahine as the obsessed news vendor Qinawi; a box-office failure on release, later ranked the greatest Arab film.

Cairokee

Cairokee (كايروكي) is an Egyptian rock band formed in 2003 in Cairo, fronted by Amir Eid, whose song "Sout El Horeya" made it a voice of the 2011 revolution.

Cait O'Riordan

Cait O'Riordan, also known as Caitlín O'Riordan, is a British musician and bassist. She played bass for The Pogues until 1986 and later appeared in films like Sid and Nancy.

Cait Sith (Final Fantasy)

Cait Sith (ケット・シー) is the robotic fortune-telling cat party member of Final Fantasy VII, a remote-controlled puppet of Shinra's Reeve Tuesti riding a moogle, named for the Scottish cat-sìth fairy cat.

Caitlin Bassett (actress)

Caitlin Bassett, American actress and U.S. Army intelligence veteran (staff sergeant, three combat deployments), played Addison Augustine in NBC's Quantum Leap (2022–2024, 31 episodes), her acting debut after UMGC, Brooklyn Law School, and Stella Adler training.